Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird. — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. — Brian May Copy Share Image
When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song.… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
“Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon. — Tiesto Copy Share Image
We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write… — Courtney Hood Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
“Artists make normal songs. Then Radio stations, TV and DJ’s turn those normal songs into hits” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music. — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life. — Charlie Byrd Copy Share Image
We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music. — August Alsina Copy Share Image
I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
“Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Restarting the whole song over just because you missed your favorite part. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for. — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
